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Re: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?

2012-06-05 by jammie

yes it would as those have 3 scsi port connections

but they dont work with many samplers i have only got them working with 
kurzweil roland and akai

did you try them with different firmware


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Summers" <djtbs1@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?


> It all depends on what drive you get.
> I don't think my Emax 1 or 2 keyboard look bad at all (granted they aren't
> the PCD-50b).
>
> It would have been nice if the PCD-47b worked in Emax as those the cards
> don't stick out- but alas no dice!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Carl Lofgren <carl_lofgren@...> 
> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Really! Wow! The thing why I would prefer the floppy emulator is because 
>> I
>> think the cf kits for the Emax looks so bad. I am most interested in how 
>> it
>> will perform with the Casio FZ1 as well - got one of those too and I 
>> would
>> love to use the emulator for that one as well.
>>
>> /C
>>
>> >________________________________
>> > From: jammie <jammie.emma@...>
>> >To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>> >Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:53 PM
>> >Subject: Re: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >yes it does work and the new 3.5 drive is perfect have one here that im
>> testing on synths with floppy drives
>> >
>> >my list for testing at the moment is sy85 sy99 with a special conversion
>> board flat cable to 34pin floppy idc connection
>> >
>> >korg m1 t1 01w
>> >
>> >gem s2turbo
>> >
>> >ensoniq eps classic
>> >
>> >sd1 ts10/12
>> >
>> >tx16w
>> >
>> >fz1/fz10
>> >
>> >if you can do scsi conversion on your board then i would go for that as
>> the costs of the emulator and the scsi upgrade with the scsi cf drives 
>> are
>> comparable
>> >
>> >but if you are unlucky enough to own a rev2 or 1 board that cant be
>> upgraded not many of those about then the floppy emulator is up your 
>> street
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: Carl Lofgren
>> >To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>> >Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 12:05 PM
>> >Subject: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?
>> >
>> >Hi - it seems the people behind the HxC floppy emulator is coming out
>> with a new - much better designed - floppy emulator:
>> http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=42
>> >
>> >According to the info it should be 100 percent compatible with the older
>> versions - which would mean support for the Emax. I think it looks pretty
>> good and I am on the edge of ordering one.
>> >
>> >Anyone with experience with the HxC emulators?
>> >
>> >http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
>> >
>> >/C
>> >
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